New telephone cards

New telephone cards

JAKARTA (JP): The government will soon introduce validated
telephone cards to replace the current ones which turned out to
have been falsified.

Director General of Post and Telecommunication Purawidjaja
told reporters yesterday that the present phone cards will be
replaced gradually during the next three to five years.

Purawidjaja said that the Ministry of Tourism, Post and
Telecommunication had worked together with the state-owned PT
Telkom and Securities Paper and Bank Notes printing company
(Peruri) to develop the new telephone cards with a validation
system.(09)